New distribution: gNewSense 1.0

Posted Nov 3, 2006 8:38 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Maybe it's just that I'm used to Debian, but I'm running testing right now and it has more polish then anything Ubuntu has done.

Ubuntu does a good job a providing a default install and their most important thing is providing a environment and community feel that makes new users comfortable. Debian completely fails to do this on both counts.

But out of all the Linux distros I've ever used Debian has the highest level of quality out of any of them.

Personally I think that gNewSense is making a mistake basing their stuff off of Ubuntu. I'll be to much trouble for them to keep up with the Ubuntu releases since I don't think they'll ever be that big. It would probably be a better approach to just adopt Debian Stable then setup a good default install and higher-numbered versions for Gnome and the kernel or whatever they think it is nessicary to give Debian a nice userfriendly install.